nonesuch 126: tonal agreement: lexical tone of possessive pronoun (H or HL), and no other determiner or modifier, being reproduced on the noun it is in syntactic construction with, replacing the noun’s own lexical tone (also H or HL, with initial L extratonal)
Where found
Barasana (Eastern Tukanoan, Andean-Equatorial)
Domain
phonology, syntax
Subdomain
tone, agreement
Keywords
possessive pronoun
Type
nonesuch
Universals violated
none
Source
Gomez-Imbert, Elsa (2001). More on the tone versus pitch accent typology: Evidence from Barasana and other Eastern Tukanoan languages. In Shigeki Kaji (ed.), Cross-Linguistic Studies of Tonal Phenomena: Tonogenesis, Japanese Accentology, and Other Topics, 369-412. Tokyo: Institute for the Study of Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa.
